Male rainbow darters (Etheostoma caeruleum) prefer larger conspecific females.

abstract：:Pavlovian conditioning is sensitive to the temporal relationship between the conditioned stimulus (CS) and the unconditioned stimulus (US). This has motivated models that describe learning as a process that continuously updates associative strength during the trial or specifically encodes the CS-US interval. These mod...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Chan CKJ,Harris JA

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pausing within multiple fixed-ratio schedules differing in reinforcer magnitude is jointly controlled by both past and upcoming conditions of reinforcement. Abrupt shifts from a just-received large reinforcer to a signaled upcoming small reinforcer (i.e., a negative incentive shift) produce marked disruptions in respo...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Galuska CM,Yadon KA

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We analyzed the temporal pattern of conditioned suppression of lever-pressing for food in rats conditioned with tone-shock pairings using either a 10 or 15s conditioned stimulus (CS)-unconditioned stimulus (US) interval with a CS duration that was three times the CS-US interval. The analysis of average suppression and...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Tallot L,Capela D,Brown BL,Doyère V

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Laboratory studies of scatter hoarding birds have become a model system for spatial memory studies. Considering that such birds are known to have a good spatial memory, recovery success in lab studies seems low. In parids (titmice and chickadees) typically ranging between 25 and 60% if five seeds are cached in 50-128 ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Brodin A,Urhan AU

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recourse to anthropomorphism, folk psychology, or discontinuist thought, in order to take into account the richness of animal cognitive processes and of their evolution, is of some heuristic value. However, in the absence of recognised criteria allowing the hypothesised behavioural discontinuities between species to b...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Vidal JM,Vancassel M,Quris R

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two studies were carried out to test the ability of Préalpes du Sud x Lacaune (Study 1) and Rambouillet ewes (Study 2) to recognize their lambs during the first 24 h postpartum. Ewes were given the choice between their own and an alien lamb of approximately the same age, in a triangular pen of 10 m×10 m×10 m. A lamb w...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Terrazas A,Ferreira G,Lévy F,Nowak R,Serafin N,Orgeur P,Soto R,Poindron P

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Do young children understand the numerical value of empty sets prior to developing a concept of symbolic zero? Are empty sets represented as mental magnitudes? In order to investigate these questions, we tested 4-year old children and adults with a numerical ordering task in which the goal was to select two stimuli in...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Merritt DJ,Brannon EM

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sequential choice model (SCM) proposes that latencies to accept options presented alone can be used to predict preferences between these options when they are presented simultaneously. SCM has been proposed and tested in experiments where only two alternatives were present. To further challenge the model, we train...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Vasconcelos M,Monteiro T,Aw J,Kacelnik A

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During foraging, thousands of leaf-cutting ant workers travel along high traffic foraging trails which, when narrow, reduce the leaf delivery rate due to the reduction in workers' travel-speed. On the other hand, high worker traffic promotes head-on encounters which are supposed to mediate worker task allocation and s...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Hastenreiter IN,Lopes JFS,da Silva Camargo R,Forti LC

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both the shape of the electric pulses and their rhythm of emission serve in communication in weakly-electric mormyrid fish. Because the pulses emitted by a given individual show very little variability, whereas the rhythm of emission is highly variable, the mormyrids electric emission can be considered to be the repet...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Teyssedre C,Serrier J

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reviews studies investigating the effect of economy type on reinforcer value. In a closed economy, consumption of the reinforcer depends entirely on the subject's behavior, whereas in an open economy it does not, due, for example, to the provision of free reinforcers after the session. In theory, reinforc...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Kearns DN

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this experiment was to investigate 5- and 8-year-olds' long-term memory for stimulus duration in a bisection task. Children were trained to discriminate between a short and a long standard duration presented as visual stimulus for 2 and 8 s, respectively. They had then to decide whether an intermediate ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Rattat A,Droit-Volet S

更新日期：2001-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Aposematic prey advertise their toxicity to predators using conspicuous warning signals, which predators learn to use to reduce their intake of toxic prey. Like other types of prey, aposematic prey often differ in body size, both within and between species. Increasing body size can increase signal size, which make lar...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Smith KE,Halpin CG,Rowe C

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a bidirectional control procedure, rats had their first opportunity to push a joystick immediately after observing, from an adjacent compartment, the joystick moving 50 times either to the right or to the left, with each movement signalling the delivery of inaccessible food. Half of these animals observed the joyst...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Heyes CM,Jaldow E,Nokes T,Dawson GR

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interruptions and unfamiliar events (distracters) during a timed signal disrupt (delay) timing in humans and other animals. We hypothesized that repeated exposure to a stimulus may reduce its subsequent time-disrupting properties. To test this hypothesis rats were trained in a reversed peak-interval (RPI) procedure, i...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Buhusi CV,Matthews AR

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In two experiments with rats, we investigated the effects of using multiple contexts during extinction on renewal of lever-pressing behavior. During the first phase of both experiments, rats were reinforced to press a lever for food in Context A. Then, responses underwent extinction. For half of the animals, extinctio...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Bernal-Gamboa R,Nieto J,Uengoer M

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resurgence of previously reinforced responding was investigated in male Siamese fighting fish (Betta splendens). Swimming through a ring produced 15-s mirror presentations according to, with different fish, either a fixed-ratio 1 or a variable-interval 60-s schedule of reinforcement. When responding was stable, a diff...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： da Silva SP,Cançado CR,Lattal KA

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigate models for animal feeding behaviour, with the aim of improving understanding of how animals organise their behaviour in the short term. We consider three classes of model: hidden Markov, latent Gaussian and semi-Markov. Each can predict the typical 'clustered' feeding behaviour that is generally observe...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Allcroft DJ,Tolkamp BJ,Glasbey CA,Kyriazakis I

更新日期：2004-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Kin recognition requires the ability to discriminate between one's own genetic relatives and non-relatives. There are two mechanisms that aid in kin discrimination: phenotype matching and familiarity. Dogs may be a good model for assessing these mechanisms as dogs are a promiscuous social species with a keen sense of ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Hamilton J,Vonk J

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Weaklings serve as a buffer, allowing an increase in the overall prospect of offspring survival. Whereas birds are able to directly determine which offspring to invest in via selective feeding, multiparous mammals have fewer methods of excluding weaklings from milk provision. In pigs the maternal investment strategy i...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Skok J

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Organismal performance can be significantly affected by the nutritional conditions experienced during different life-stages. The Silver Spoon Hypothesis predicts that individuals will always perform better as adults when they experience advantageous conditions during development. In contrast, the Environmental Matchin...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： McInerney EP,Silla AJ,Byrne PG

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the contribution of response bias to measures of delay discounting in Long-Evans rats (n=8) using the adjusting amount procedure. Under this procedure, we assessed preference for 150microl of 10% sucrose solution delivered following a delay over a variable-amount alternative delivered immediately. ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Wilhelm CJ,Mitchell SH

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this preliminary study defense behaviour patterns (fear responses) are described in two closely related, behaviourally different inbred labyrinth fish subspecies and in their F1 generation. The subspecies M. opercularis (characterized briefly by "active escape") and M. opercularis concolor (characterized by "passiv...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Vadász C,Kiss B,Csányi V

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An eight-rat eight-station operant conditioning arena was used to study the spatial structure and temporal stability of foraging dispersion patterns. Food was obtained by bar pressing as the population was exposed to an ascending series of the fixed and variable aspects of ratio and interval schedules of reinforcement...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Goldstein SR,Johnson P,Ward G

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated rats' preferences for using non-spatial and spatial cues in a missing-object recognition task. Rats were trained to find a sunflower seed under any one of four previously missing adjacent objects, the test array of a trial, after having found seeds under three of them in the 'study' array of th...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Arain M,Cohen J

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans respond to an infant crying with an increase in cortisol level and heightened alertness, a response interpreted as emotional contagion, a primitive form of empathy. Previous results are mixed when examining whether dogs might respond similarly to human distress. We examined whether domestic dogs, which have a l...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Yong MH,Ruffman T

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Social play behaviours were investigated in 17 young rhesus monkeys Macaca mulatta, belonging to a large captive group, at three ages: 3/4, 4/5 and 5/6 months. Play initiatives were recorded (TO/BY) and the infants' partners were divided into five age groups (mothers, adults, similar-age infants, 1-yr-old infants and ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Tartabini A

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many animal species hoard food by carrying it to their home area. In this experiment we evaluated the interaction between persistent (formalin) pain and food-hoarding behaviour. A food-hoarding apparatus, consisting of a home cage connected with an alley at the end of which were placed food pellets, was used to test (...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Aloisi AM,Carli G

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In dyads of adult male Gryllus bimaculatus, a dominance relationship is established at the first agonistic interaction between the two insects. The comparison of the aggressive behaviour displayed by adult males shows that field crickets act in an identical manner when confronted with an unfamiliar opponent or with on...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Khazraie K,Campan M

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Contingency, and more particularly temporal contingency, has often figured in thinking about the nature of learning. However, it has never been formally defined in such a way as to make it a measure that can be applied to most animal learning protocols. We use elementary information theory to define contingency in suc...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Gallistel CR,Craig AR,Shahan TA

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00